Quotes About Writer

There are truths found in books or films when some writer puts exactly the right words together and it's like their pen turned sword and pierced you right through the heart.

For the Gnostics and for the fiction writer evil is the source of all moral understanding; the function of evil, in the best of conditions, is tension and imbalance, the eventual creation, through suffering and misfortune, of wisdom.

Patron is a writer in Hebrew; wanted to create a pun between the word for Zion and the word for penis. We couldn't find a term for penis, but the word copulate is mtsayen which helped her make her pun with tsion.

A good fiction writer can write any character or any story that she wants to write. The importance, IMO, is a burning desire to tell that person's story.

I'm not a very fancy person. I've been a writer a long time, and right now 'The Hunger Games' is getting a lot of focus. It'll pass. The focus will be on something else. It'll shift. It always does. And that seems just fine.

I started school because I felt like, as a songwriter, I was operating solely on instinct, and I was having a hard time deciding exactly what words I wanted to use. I felt like I wanted to be a writer, and being a curious person, school felt like a way to solve the problems I was having with my own work.

I feel some kind of duty to be really, really honest as a writer. The same is true of my songwriting.

My first motion capture game was with Sony - 'NBA: The Life.' It was very ahead of its time. Brandon Akiaten, he was the writer and director. He had a real vision of what this game was meant to be; it was a basketball game where I was the Jerry Maguire sports agent type guy. And it was great!

I don't go around thinking about regret; regret doesn't consume me as a person... I'm not certain about whether any writer, any artist, any musician, can write without regret, so I don't think perhaps it's even particularly Southern.

I am a meat-loving Southern girl. Add in being a writer, and that means I drink more than I should, too.

Many years ago, I was a producer on a movie called 'My Dog Skip.' Willie Morris, the great southern writer, had written the book. We had adapted it and taken 17 years of his life and compressed it into one year.

A writer tries to express those thoughts, which are inexpressible, with beauty and love.

Falling in love with a writer is a dangerous thing, isn't it? The only thing you get out of it sometimes is immortality.

If you're going to fall in love with anyone, fall in love with a writer. Allow yourself to become immortalised in words.

By instinct I'm an adventurer; by choice I'd like to be a writer; by pure, unadulterated luck, I'm an actor.

la muerte a menudo es un buen paso profesional para el escritor).

Moonlight, in a familiar room . . . is a medium the most suitable for a romance-writer.

I believe that to be the world's greatest living writer there must be something terribly wrong with you. I don't even want to be the world's greatest dead writer. just being dead would be fair enough.

When a writer is swayed with his fame and his fortune, you can float him down the river with the turds.

If I could only make her fall in love with me. Pretend to be a writer and just fuck her and have her cook for me. I would never have to write I'd just pretend.

There is nothing quite like the expectancy of the beginning writer, unless it is the conceit of the successful one.

God, I thought, what about the writer? The writer was the blood and bones and brains (or lack of same) in these creatures. The writer made their hearts beat, gave them words to speak, made them live or die, anything he wanted. And where was the writer? Who ever photographed the writer? Who applauded? But just as well and damn sure just as well: the writer was where he belonged: in some dark corner, watching.

do you drink because you are afraid of life? the interviewer asked. disgusted with life is more like it, said the writer, and with you.

I remember all the faces and the football heroes, and everything has meaning, and an editor writes me, you are good but you are too emotional